Visual/Development Sheets

For my Visual sheets I developed ideas from my sketch book and theme board. I stuck with the colours used throughout my sheets, creating back grounds out of gouache, tissue paper and gum strip and the water colour rainbow effect.

For my first visual sheet I used the tea cups and teapots taken from the children’s tea party, some I painted with water colour and others I left uncoloured as simple outlines. I added bunting detail in and around which was taken from the corrugation research, I furthered my cupcakes keeping them similar colours and continued using the birds changing the colours to add diversity to my sheets. I did use my rose again on this sheets but I don’t feel they are strong enough to further into my designs so I won’t be using them again. To reflect the theme of Alice in wonderland I used the ace of spades playing cards which work really will with the uncoloured parts of this sheet. For a start of development I feel this is a well thought sheet.

For my second sheet I looked mainly at the idea of John Tenniel sketchy drawings. The main drive for this sheet was the knife and fork used on my theme board, I looked at the detailing used and furthered into that to develop my own style of plates which match the knife and fork, I added extra details onto this sheet using cupcakes, teapots, tea cups, playing cards, bunting and cake ect. Keeping with the simple sketch I used red and black pen as it seems to add layers and on the plates help add shaping in different tones. I personally love this sheet as although it’s done in pen it isn’t flat due to the back ground and really reflects the style of John Tenniel.

For my third sheet I mixed both ideas together of the first and the second sheet. From my first sheet I took the idea of candy colours and forwarded everything but the bird and the rose. I also didn’t use as much bunting as I didn’t want it to appear too busy. From my second sheet I took the inspiration taken from John Tenniel and instead of a bold black outline I used the sketchiness, I also used fine sketches to added shape and shadowing into my paintings. I feel this sheet has worked amazingly, when I first had the idea I couldn’t see it working but much to my surprise it looks beautiful as it lifts the paintings and makes them a little less flat.

For my final sheet I wanted to use something purely taken from Alice in wonderland so I used known quotes from the book. I wanted to make this really simple and bold so I used different fonts which would make this look wacky but used plain black for the letters. I feel this sheet is really nice as it does exactly what I wanted which was to reflect the theme of Alice in wonderland.